On a beautiful, sunny day, the Furry Bottom Brothers-Manny, Cristos, and Ollie-pedal into the forest for a picnic. The three young bears are regular visitors to the woods, where they love to play and climb trees for hours on end. Yet today, on the hunt for the perfect picnic spot, they wander much further into the forest than they've ever been before. They finally settle down to eat, but when his brothers are distracted, Ollie chases a butterfly into the trees and is lost in the deep woods. Scared and alone, the little bear can't help but remember his father's stories about the witch and her...

This work examines ethical problems raised by a number of key 20th century theoretical and fictional texts by authors such as Levinas, Sartre, Beauvoir, Yourcenar, Duras and Genet. It argues that even ethical texts frequently depict conflict as an insurmountable aspect of human relations.

Geometry has been defined as that part of mathematics which makes appeal to the sense of sight; but this definition is thrown in doubt by the existence of great geometers who were blind or nearly so, such as Leonhard Euler. Sometimes it seems that geometric methods in analysis, so-called, consist in having recourse to notions outside those apparently relevant, so that geometry must be the joining of unlike strands; but then what shall we say of the importance of axiomatic programmes in geometry, where reference to notions outside a restricted reper- tory is banned? Whatever its definition,...